Syllabus 2018/19

Week 1: Introduction: The Road Novel in the Long Twentieth Century
Giovanni Arrighi “Introduction” The Long Twentieth Century (1994)
Flannery O’Connor “A Good Man is Hard to Find” (1953)
*Bring in an add, film clip, or other cultural artefact about 1950s road culture

Selected Secondary Reading:
Josefina Saldana Portillo “On the Road with Che Guevara and Jack Kerouac: Melancholia and Colonial Geographies of Race in the Americas” New Formations (2002)
---. Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development (2003)
W.W. Rostow The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto (1960)

Selected Secondary Reading:
William Sites “Building an Urban Neoliberalism: The Long Rebirth of New York” Remaking New York: Primitive Globalization and the Politics of Urban Community (2003)
Peter Gallison “War Against the Center” Grey Room (2001)

Selected Secondary Reading
Raymond Mohl “Stop the Road: Freeway Revolts in American Cities” Journal of Urban History (2004)
Eric Avila The Folklore of the Freeway: Race and Revolt in the Modernist City (2014)
Samuel Delany Times Square Red, Times Square Blue (1999)

Week 10
*Yuri Herrera Signs Preceding the End of the World (& Other Stories, 2015)
Lisa Marie Cacho “Grafting Terror onto Illegality” Social Death: Racialized Rightlessness and the Criminalization of the Unprotected (2012)